Full course content for NET-301. The sidebar to the left lists every overview document, weekly module, and lab. Pick a starting point below or use the sidebar to jump anywhere.
Start here: NET-301: Advanced Networking -- Course Outline →
Overview
Weekly modules
- NET-301 Week 1 -- Carrier and WAN Protocols: MPLS, Segment Routing, SRv6
- NET-301 Week 2 -- Datacenter Networking: Clos Topology, VXLAN-EVPN, Fabric Design
- NET-301 Week 3 -- Internet-Scale BGP: Route Reflectors, Communities, RPKI, Prefix Hijacking
- NET-301 Week 4 -- Network Automation: Ansible, Salt, Nornir, Python Network Engineering
- NET-301 Week 5 -- Performance Engineering: eBPF, XDP, and DPDK
- NET-301 Week 6 -- NSM at Scale: Suricata Clustering, Zeek Log-Pipeline, SIEM Integration
- NET-301 Week 7 -- Threat-Hunting and Network Forensics: Bejtlich + Davidoff & Ham
- NET-301 Week 8 -- 5G Core Network and Protocol Security
- NET-301 Week 9 -- QUIC, HTTP/3, and Encrypted Transport Security
- NET-301 Week 10 -- Penetration Testing Cross-Cut: Offense Informs Defense
- NET-301 Week 11 -- Reverse Engineering Cross-Cut: Protocol Analysis and Wireshark Dissectors
- NET-301 Week 12 -- Capstone Preparation and Presentation
Labs
- Lab 1: MPLS LSP Setup in Containerlab -- SR-MPLS Baseline
- Lab 2: Spine-Leaf Clos VXLAN-EVPN Fabric -- VM Mobility Demonstration
- Lab 3: RPKI Deployment -- ROA States and Reject-Invalid Policy
- Lab 4: Network Automation -- Ansible + Nornir Idempotent Configuration Push
- Lab 5: eBPF/XDP Program Authoring -- Line-Rate Packet Drop and Measurement
- Lab 6: Cilium eBPF Kubernetes Networking + Hubble Observability
- Lab 7: Suricata Cluster + Zeek Pipeline + SIEM -- Academy NSM Corpus
- Lab 8: Threat Hunt -- Reconstruct a Multi-Phase Intrusion Timeline
- Lab 9: Open5GS + UERANSIM 5G Registration Capture
- Lab 10: 5G Threat Modeling Exercise
- Lab 11: QUIC/HTTP3 NSM Coverage Gap Analysis
- Lab 12: Red/Blue Split Exercise
- Lab 13: Protocol RE Practice (Capstone Gate 5 Preparation)